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Efforts continue to locate one of two men tossed into Havilland Bay during boating mishap

Dewayne Shreve, 25, formerly of Chatham, has gone missing on Havilland Bay in the east end of Lake Superior following a boating mishap on Thursday. A second man made it safely to shore. The OPP continue to search for Shreve.

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Sault St. Marie OPP continue to search for a former Chatham man after a small boat capsized in Havilland Bay at the east end of Lake Superior last Thursday.

Const. Brian Speakman said Dewayne Shreve, 25, of Goulais Township, and another man set out in a 12-foot aluminum boat powered by a six-horsepower engine at 4 p.m., but the pair ran into trouble about 250 feet from shore.

Speakman said the boat contained life jackets, but neither man was wearing one when they began to swim to shore.

A 23-year-old man managed to make it safely to shore around 5:15 p.m., but Shreve had disappeared from sight in the water.

A relative of the missing man, who didn't wish to be identified, told The Daily News that Shreve was born and raised in Chatham, but had moved to the area north of Sault St. Marie with his mother a few years ago.

Speakman said the initial search included a Hercules aircraft from the Joint Recovery Co-ordination Centre (JRCC) in Trenton.

The OPP helicopter, plus two OPP marine vessels and the dive team dispatched from Gitchee Gumee Marina on the Goulais River, continued search and recovery efforts Monday.

"Our helicopter is doing shallow water searches; looking for anything on the surface, and doing shoreline searches as well," Speakman said.

"Eighty feet of water is our search area right now," he added.

An auxiliary search and rescue unit of the JRCC has also assisted in an extensive shoreline and ground search.

Speakman said the weather conditions at the time of the mishap were sunny and windy with waves ranging from two to three feet high.

The weather has continued to be sunny daily, but wind direction has since changed, he said.

Shreve has short brown hair and was wearing jean shorts, with no shirt, at the time of his disappearance.

Speakman said about 10 OPP officers are still involved in the search from the air and on the water.